<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/black-and-white-photograph-of-a-well-dressed-young-man-working-on-a-magnetic-drum-store-in-a-lab.jpg?id=66734376&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C120%2C0%2C121"/><br/><br/><p>In the late 1940s—when computer engineers were grappling with unreliab